5 Biggest Tsunami Waves in History

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Me at 3am: I should probably get some sleep My brain at 3am: I wonder what the biggest tsunami looks like

tsunami’s are one of my biggest fears, especially since i freak out when i go underwater. i think it would be terrifying to see a giant wall of water coming straight for you.

My grandmother is in her mid 70s, and I honestly think she has ptsd when it came to mount rainier erupting. She was working for Weyerhaeuser, she Worked a lot with what was going on with the mountain/volcano. After it erupted she refused to ever live in the valleys near it again. She made us move up into the mountains, in case something similar happened again.

It’s crazy how water is vital to all sorts of life but is also the most destructive element and can wipe out anything

Amazingly, two people (a father and son who were out fishing that day) survived the last tsunami by riding the top of it.

where are my 3am natural disaster video lads at eh ???

Around 10,000 years ago, a landslide caused a submerged shelf to break at Lake Tahoe. The water sloshed back and forth for several days, with waves more than 300 feet tall.

The ocean is honestly terrifying. Not only the things in it but the way it can easily take you away. Whether that be riptide, tsunamis, or just drowning, the ocean is nothing to just act casually around.

As A Japanese person who has been living In Hokkaido my entire Life, the amount of fear in my soul watching this is terrifying

Man at some point in time in the 60s in Alaska, I can only imagine seeing a wave 1720 feet high. Thats gotta be the scariest thing anyones ever seen, or will ever see. 5 people who were unlucky enough had to see it and get crushed by it. So sad but just goes to show how powerful the ocean really is. 🤯😪

The Tsunami is my biggest fear. The scene in Interstellar nearly made my knees buckle. I'm not afraid of heights in the least, in fact, I'm a roofer. But if I stand next to something HUGE, it makes me so uncomfortable I cant move. The Tsunami is just.....terrifying.

In that 1700’ tsunami, a man and his son out fishing actually survived it by riding it all the way to the top and over as it passed!

Tsunamis are my worst fear, even though I dont live in a state with tunamis and oceans, it's still my fear. Basically water is my fear.

me who lives near a beach 💀

All these waves makes me realize I need to learn how to surf 🏄🏿‍♂ Great video👍👍

I can't imagine being in a tsunami that must be horrible. Good thing I live where it doesn't have natural disasters like that Edit: I've never got this many likes or replies before thanks 😊

Many, many years ago, I remember reading a similar thing happened in Alaska as well. It was a inland bay, and a huge slide happened. There was a father and son fishing right there, they knew it was the end. To there surprise, the tsunami pick them up and carried them. They came to rest on top of the trees. If you have seen Alaska, the trees aren't small.

I was a little surprised by this list. I didn't realize the tsunami created by the chicxulub impact to be just 100m high (I seem to recall older guesses put it at 1000-3000m). I also recall learning somewhere that the Mediterranean Sea (and perhaps the Black Sea) were created or expanded greatly when a natural barrier failed and caused a waterfall I can only imagine. Would this not have created a type of mega tsunami? Or when melting glacial ice released massive lakes of previous accumulated melt water during the ice age? I've hear that the an Azores landslide will possibly cause a devastating mega tsunami. Frightening as hell, but also so damn interesting.

The Lituya bay tsunami is always incorrectly reported as the highest wave ever. The 1,720 feet wave was not a wave, it was a splash. Yes, it was a huge splash but the actual wave that went down the bay was closer to 100 feet high.